Jeremiah 16:12
New International Version
But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.

New Living Translation
And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.

English Standard Version
and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.

Berean Standard Bible
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

King James Bible
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

New King James Version
And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

New American Standard Bible
You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, each one of you is following the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

NASB 1995
You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

NASB 1977
‘You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
You too have done evil, even more than your fathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Amplified Bible
and because you have done worse [things] than your fathers. Just look, every one of you walks in the stubbornness of his own evil heart, so that you do not listen [obediently] to Me.

Christian Standard Bible
You did more evil than your ancestors. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You did more evil than your fathers. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.

American Standard Version
and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you have done more evil than your fathers, and behold, you are going, each man, after the will of your evil heart, that you will not listen to me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
(and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);

Contemporary English Version
And you have done even worse! You are stubborn, and instead of obeying me, you do whatever evil comes to your mind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you also have done worse than your fathers: for behold every one of you walketh after the perverseness of his evil heart, so as not to hearken to me.

English Revised Version
and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto me:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from obeying me.

Good News Translation
But you have done even worse than your ancestors. All of you are stubborn and evil, and you do not obey me.

International Standard Version
You have done even more evil than your ancestors, and each one of you is stubbornly following his own evil desires, refusing to listen to me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto Me;

Literal Standard Version
You also have done evil above your fathers, | And behold, you are each walking after the stubbornness of his evil heart, | So as not to listen to Me.

Majority Standard Bible
And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

New American Bible
And you have done worse than your ancestors. Here you are, every one of you, walking in the stubbornness of your evil heart instead of listening to me.

NET Bible
And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.

New Revised Standard Version
and because you have behaved worse than your ancestors, for here you are, every one of you, following your stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me.

New Heart English Bible
and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, look, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me:

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken to me:

World English Bible
You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me.

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Context
Disaster Predicted
11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. 13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’…

Cross References
Mark 7:21
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king."

Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.

Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 9:14
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them."

Jeremiah 13:10
These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth--of no use at all.


Treasury of Scripture

And you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not listen to me:

worse.

Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

imagination.

Jeremiah 7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:14
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

evil.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

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Jeremiah 16
1. The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8. from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10. because they were worse than their fathers.
14. Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16. God will doubly recompense their idolatry.














(12) Imagination.--Better, as before, stubbornness.

Verse 12. - Imagination; rather, stubbornness (Jeremiah 3:17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And you
וְאַתֶּ֛ם (wə·’at·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have done
לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

more evil
הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם (hă·rê·‘ō·ṯem)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad

than your fathers.
מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם (mê·’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

See how
וְהִנְּכֶ֣ם (wə·hin·nə·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

each of you
אִ֚ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

was following
הֹלְכִ֗ים (hō·lə·ḵîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

the stubbornness
שְׁרִר֣וּת (šə·ri·rūṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8307: Firmness, stubbornness

of his evil
הָרָ֔ע (hā·rā‘)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

heart,
לִבּֽוֹ־ (lib·bōw-)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

instead of
לְבִלְתִּ֖י (lə·ḇil·tî)
Preposition-l
Strong's 1115: A failure of, not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until

obeying
שְׁמֹ֥עַ (šə·mō·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

Me.
אֵלָֽי׃ (’ê·lāy)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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